Opportunity heads uphill after engineers finally pinpoint the origin of the rock that appeared out of nowhere.
Opportunity heads uphill after engineers finally pinpoint the origin of the rock that appeared out of nowhere.
They have now confirmed that the rock was kicked off a larger piece when Opportunity traveled over it.
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Opportunity heads uphill after engineers finally pinpoint the origin of the rock that appeared out of nowhere.
They have now confirmed that the rock was kicked off a larger piece when Opportunity traveled over it.
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Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Attention NASA nerds, I still do not know what this item attached to the ISS is.
http://youtu.be/8kXBgT-4wjY
Comments? Reasonable interpretation / explanation? Anyone?
Is NASA serious?
Did they actually stop the rover to investigate a pebble?
On a planet of rocks they stopped to investigate a pebble that might have rolled down hill as they passed by.
No wonder nothing ever gets done on time.
Attention NASA nerds, I still do not know what this item attached to the ISS is.
http://youtu.be/8kXBgT-4wjY
Comments? Reasonable interpretation / explanation? Anyone?
Definite delta wing shape, it flies in an atmosphere, not alien.
Why would, what I would assume be a top secret something, be hanging around the ISS? There are cameras accessible by the public all over it. And why is it not being commented on or explained by NASA? I have never seen a shape like that on anything being developed, it is unlike anything that I am aware of and it does not reflect standard / established design layouts. Our space stuff is based in basic shapes with some complex curves, this appears to be more organic in design.
I think that we can all agree that there is something there, there. What is it, who made it and what purpose does it serve?
I have to assume that this site has a very high percentage of NASA either employees, ex employees or just plain space nerds and an answer should be forth coming. But I can find no relevant comment.
Cotour, how do you know that the video is authentic, to me this looks like a space plane, if it is top secret, its possible no one not in the know would have seen such a vehicle, to me it has a delta wing shape not unlike other such concepts I have seen, and finally the resolution of this object is rather low, unlike other parts of the space station that are in higher resolution.
I agree that it could be a hoax, it is very possible given today’s level of technology, but its a pretty good one if it is.
Of course NASA is serious. Examining the rocks, pebbles, and soil is why we put Curiosity on Mars in the first place. This was an opportunity to examine the underside, the unexposed side, of a rock. After all the expense and effort of getting instruments there, would you really pass up that science?
Although it can collect soil samples and the powder of holes drilled into rocks, the arm with the APXS and the MAHLI is not intended to turn over rocks for investigation.